7th grade review for MP2 Post Assessment

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The Articles of Confederation

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did not create a strong national government

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Daniel Shays’ organized a rebellion to protest the

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unfair taxes and treatment against farmers

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The primary purpose of the Articles of Confederation was to 

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establish the basic framework of the national government

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One weakness of the Articles of Confederation was the inability of the central government to:

• establish a postal system
• collect adequate taxes from the states
• control western lands
• admit new states to the Union

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collect adequate taxes from the states

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Under the Articles of Confederation, why are the years between 1781 and 1787 often referred to as the “critical period”?

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central government lacked the power to deal with major problems

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Shays’ Rebellion (1786) became a concern for many national leaders because it

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exposed fundamental weaknesses in government under the Articles of Confederation

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Why did the authors of the Articles of Confederation create a weak central government?

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They feared the kind of rule experienced under the British monarchy.

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What idea is the cartoonist expressing with the title "Rough Sailing Ahead"?

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The Articles of Confederation are doomed to fail

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 Congress could not levy and collect taxes.     • Congress could not regulate interstate or foreign trade.     • There was no national court system to settle disputes.     • The thirteen separate states lacked national unity. Which document above describes these statements?

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Articles of Confederation

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 “...Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ’TIS TIME TO PART. . . .” — Thomas Paine, Common Sense   In this quotation, Thomas Paine is trying to convince the colonists to 

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declare their independence from England